Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Higginson was warmly welcomed. He said that in contradiction to the popular theory in regard to athletics, it seemed as if they had tended rather to produce than to banish competitions of other kinds. Competition, he thought, was always the method in which the activities of man were accustomed to express themselves. He noted humorously the difference in the character of the competitions of chivalry and those of modern days. Brutality had been more and more eliminated from contests, and he felt that no passage of arms could be more gentle than such as the audience had assembled to witness...
...paper shell has been ordered from Waters in Troy, and Davy is building a new barge for the crew. The barge will be only twenty-eight inches wide instead of thirty-six as the old one was, and it is thought that this will effect a great saving of time in the work of the crew, as the change from barge to shell will not be so marked as heretofore...
...introduction he said, to the main thought of the text, we may ask, what relation has faith in God to religion? We are tempted to say in reply, is not faith in God the very essence of religion? If we turn to one of the pagan religions we find that this is not true, for their faith in God exists without true religion. A man may believe in God as he believes in gravitation and yet know no religion. A man often believes in God because he can conceive of no other First Cause. The difference between faith...
...former times there was a feeling that the church was the seat of authority and that religion meant the church. This feeling has entirely disappeared; with the springing up of new instruments of thought and education the church has lost its hold on power and the believers in close organizations are falling as much behind the times as supporters of the Macedonian Phalanx would be in this era of rifles and gattling guns...
Special attention is called to the explanation of certain tests of quickness which are now being made by Dr. Fitz at the Physiological Laboratory. It may not appear at first thought that these tests have anything about them which is connected with education, physical or mental. Yet they are being made with a view to making clear the relation of physical training to the development of quick and accurate motions and of well balanced bodies. The idea is to find out by comparison what sorts of exercise demand as a pre-requisite the most accurate mental aim and the quickest...